John Nicol Sahid Saad (born in
Bo, Sierra Leone) is a
Sierra Leonean politician, who currently serves as Sierra Leone's Minister of Housing and
Infrastructural
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Development
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. He is a member of the opposition
People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC). He is one of only few members from the opposition parties to be elected as a minister in the current government. Saad was the Chairman of the
Sierra Leone People's Party
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(SLPP) in
London
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, United Kingdom for over ten years, but he resigned from the SLPP in 2006 to join the PMDC. He was born in Bo to a
Mende mother from
Segbwema,
Kailahun District
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and a
Sierra Leonean-Lebanese father. He is only the second Sierra Leonean-Lebanese person to be elected to one of the top ministerial positions in the national government of Sierra Leone.
External links
* http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20056718.shtml
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People's Movement for Democratic Change politicians
Sierra Leone People's Party politicians
Government ministers of Sierra Leone
Sierra Leonean people of Lebanese descent
People from Bo, Sierra Leone